Marion Harting's Awakening. By Edith M. Edwards. (S.S.U.) —Marion Harling
returns home, her education, which had been given her by an aunt, being finished. She is full of schemes for doing good, but is contemptuous of the duties close at hand. How she is taught to see life more truly is told in this book, and told well.—Wild Gwen. By Marie E. Tassell. (S.P.C.K.)— Here the person to be taught is a high-spirited girl, a general favourite of her schoolfellows—the scene is laid in a school—but wilful and thoughtless.—The Mystery of Hoyle's Mouth. By M. E. Ropes. (S.S.U.)—Here we have a quite tragical outcome from the escapade of two boys who go without leave, indeed against orders, to see something of the gaieties of a Bristol fair. They fall into the hands of the smugglers and have various other more or less perilous adventures, out of which they come with fortunes that are suited to their different deserts, for one, it should be understood, is a thoroughly bad boy, the other nothing worse than weak.—Bob and his Rabbits. By Emma Leslie. (Same publishers.) —This little tale shows the perils, which, indeed, are real enough, of the bad company into which young travellers on the railroad may fall.--The King's Daughter. By Pansy. (Same publishers.)—This is a temperance story, and good of its kind. The nonsense about the wine of Scripture should not have been put in. The wine at Cana was certainly not the "fresh juice of the grape." There were two kinds, and whatever the first may have been—probably it was the ordinary wine of the country—the second seemed to the "master of the feast" of superior quality.
Among the magazines for children we have as usual to give a high place to Little Folks (Cassell and Co.) Tho serial stories are Mrs. L. T. Meade's "In the Red Kitchen," and "Astray in the Forest," by E. S. Ellis, the scene of the latter being laid in New England, in which bears, wolves, &c , play a leading part. There are plenty of comic verses of fairly good quality, and a great variety of miscellaneous papers ; some interesting sketches of Royal children (of the present day) may be specially noticed. Puzzles and competitions appear as usual ; and there is the customary portion devoted to the quite little folk. The illustra- tions are plentiful and good.—The Dawn of Day (S.P.C.K.) is a "Monthly Illustrated Magazine for Sunday School and Parish Use," and is well adapted to its purpose. The first six numbers contain papers on "Things Worth Thinking About," by the late Bishop Walsham How. There is a series of papers running through the year's issue by the Rev. Montague Fowler, on "Church Progress at Home and Abroad." These will be especially valuable in helping to lift readers' minds out of the narrow parochial groove.—The Home Blessing (S.S.U.) is a new venture to which we wish every success. It describes itself as an "Illustrated Monthly Magazine for the Family." A series of papers, written with a special intention of carrying out the pur- pose of the title, is contributed by the Rev. J. It. Miller, D.D., with the heading of" Secrets of Home Happiness." Two papers, " Homes and Haunts of the Queen," will be sure to please. Among other series we may mention "Famous Books and their Authors" and "Glimpses of Notable Preachers."—From the same publishers we also have received The Child's Own Magazine, sufficiently commended by the fact that it appears for the sixty- fourth time, and must be the eldest of a numerous family.
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